The Continuing Adventures of Joe Biden

Untruth Inc.

"The two fuels that run Untruth, Inc., are, first, a realization that most of the president’s policies, whether deliberately or as a result of indifference and laziness, run counter to what most Americans support, and, second, a media establishment so invested in his agenda that it will not call the administration to account. So the engine of lying keeps humming. On any given day the president of the United States can step up to the teleprompter amid the latest disaster and swear that he did not do what he just did, or insist that someone else, not he, did the dastardly deed, or simply skip over recent history and make things up. The press at first quibbles, then nods in agreement, and Obama is empowered to do it again and again. We have not seen such a disingenuous president since Richard Nixon — but he, at least, was countered rather than enabled by the media." — Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution 

Fishnet Friday

Ten Buck Friday

During the 2010 midterms, conservative bloggers united in a movement called “Ten Buck Friday”. The concept behind TBF was to encourage a contribution of $10 each week to select campaigns to help elect fiscal conservatives to Congress. And is you remember, that was the year that Republicans handed "The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer" an "embarrassing shellacking". 

There are only eight Fridays between now and the 2014 midterms an we support the effort to push vital funds into the Republican candidates campaign coffers.

Focusing on the Senate races (Republicans need just six seats to oust the corrupt Dingy Harry Reid as majority leader), isn't it worth ten bucks a week (30 pkgs. of Ramen?) to help eliminate Reid's control and give the Senate responsible leadership again?   

So every Friday between now and November 4th we are asking our readers to consider contributing $10 to the campaign of the candidate(s) we have highlighted that week.

Contribute to Dan Sullivan  Here
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(If you mark your contribution as "Ten Buck Friday", they'll see the blogosphere give them a little bump.)

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* Adrienne's Corner * Fishersville Mike * Laughing Conservative * Left Coast Rebel  
* Mind Numbed Robot * Political Clown Parade * Proof Positive   * Theo Spark
* Texas Conservative News  * Wyblog

White House Marks 9-11 Anniversary with Picture of ........

France Complicates Obama's Coalition Plans

Agence France-Presse

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Wednesday that France was prepared to take part in air strikes on Islamic extremists in Iraq “if necessary.”

“In Iraq… we support the formation of an inclusive government. We will participate if necessary in an aerial military action,” Fabius said in a speech in Paris. Fabius urged an international alliance to fight the dangers posed by IS “which could reach our own soil,” he said, adding: “Several hundred French jihadists are present in Iraq and Syria.”

However, Fabius stressed that the “modalities” of French action in Iraq and Syria were not the same.

“In Syria, the situation is different: (President) Bashar al-Assad cannot be a partner, because he has an established link” with IS. “That is why we will continue to help the moderate Syrian opposition, which is fighting both” the Islamic State and the Assad regime.

Washington is now in the process of pulling together an international alliance against the militants, present in both Iraq and Syria. According to French diplomatic sources, what is preventing France from a military intervention in Syria is the lack of an international legal basis. In the case of Iraq, any military action would have to come at the request of Baghdad and would be backed up by the “self-defence” article in the United Nations charter, according to diplomatic sources.

Obama should fear not though, he still have the mighty Albanians on board.....

The ISIS Speech Obama Should Have Given

Mr. Rogers Could Have Sounded Tougher Giving a Speech on Terrorism Than Obama Did Tonight.....

by Gayle Trotter 

Somewhere in an alternate universe, White House speech writers prepared this address for President Obama to deliver to the nation on the Islamic State, also called ISIS. I have no intention of explaining how this document that I now offer fell into my hands — although I note some similarity to the words of Ronald Reagan and Liam Neeson.

My fellow Americans:

At 7 o’clock this evening, Eastern Time, air and naval forces of the United States launched a series of strikes against the terrorist facilities and military assets that support the Islamic State. From initial reports, our forces have succeeded in their mission.

ISIS is not only an enemy of the United States. Their record of subversion and aggression against innocent people is well-documented and well-known. They have wantonly and indiscriminately raped, murdered and pillaged. They have committed acts of terrorism in Iraq with a shocking degree of bloodthirstiness.

Today, we have done what we had to do. As necessary, we shall do it again. It gives me no pleasure to say that, and I wish it were otherwise.  

I’m sure there are Muslims that are ashamed and disgusted that groups such as ISIS have made Islamic jihad a synonym for barbarism around the world, caught in the grip of tyrannical fundamentalists with a history reaching back to the days when Thomas Jefferson sent U.S. Marines to the shores of Tripoli to deal with the Barbary pirates.

Back then, the Tripoli ambassador told Jefferson that, according to the Koran, “all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave.” From the earliest days of our national history, we have boldly confronted the double threat of tyranny and state-sponsored religion. We were not fooled then, and we are not fooled now.

We Americans are slow to anger. We always seek peaceful avenues before resorting to the use of force — and we did. We have tried quiet diplomacy, public condemnation, economic sanctions and demonstrations of military force. None succeeded. Despite our repeated warnings, ISIS has continued its grotesque acts of savagery, intimidation and relentless pursuit of terror.

Finally, I also have a message for those members of the Islamic State directly involved in the kidnapping and beheading of our citizens, James Foley and Steven Sotloff. At this point, I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you expect to accomplish. If you are looking for the United States to abandon its resolve, I can tell you we don’t have that in our nature.

What we do have is a very particular set of skills, skills we have acquired over a very long history of leading in world affairs. Skills that make us a nightmare for people like you. We will look for you, we will find you, and we will kill you. And we will accord the same treatment for your accomplices and your affiliates.

ISIS has made the first of several fatal miscalculations. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

We are sending a message to terrorists everywhere. The message: You can run, but you can’t hide.

I warned that there should be no place on Earth where terrorists can rest and train and practice their deadly skills. I meant it. I said that we would act with others if possible, and alone if necessary, to ensure that terrorists have no sanctuary anywhere. Tonight, we have.

Thank you, and may God continue to bless the United States of America.

(from the Opinion Page of the Washington Times) 

Voters Swing to Republicans on Immigration

American Interest

Support for the Democratic approach to immigration reform appears to be in free-fall after this summer’s surge in under-age immigrants. This helps us understand Obama’s sharp pivot away from executive action in the run-up to the mid-terms. The Wall Street Journal:

Republicans seized on the influx to argue that U.S. borders are too porous, and they blamed what they consider to be Democratic leniency toward illegal immigration for persuading children to make the journey.

The result: voters’ trust in Democrats has fallen, as has their willingness to consider legalization for undocumented.

The new survey finds that 35% of people saying the Republican Party would do a better job on immigration, vs. 27% for Democrats. That represents a big swing from December, when 31% favored Democrats and 26%, Republicans. 

But as President Obama gets set to pivoting sharply towards bombing Syria and Iraq—apparently by executive action as well—it’s worth noting that current polling favors bombing ISIS as heavily as it favored immigration reform back in the spring when Obama was all over the issue. One can’t help but wonder whether, if the polls flip again before Christmas, the President’s Middle East policies will also turn around.

All politicians need to take public opinion into account. But one never wants to look too much like one is leading from behind and chasing polls.

Coming to a Street Near You.....

An in your Face Demonstration of Defiance.

Any Question what would happen if Christians tried something like this?

image via The Laughing Conservative

muslim Prayers Shut New York City Street

New York City on a recent Friday

This is not an uncommon sight in European cities such as London, Paris and Brussels, and usually followed by anti-government demonstrations by the more radical members of the groups. You've seen the pictures....  

Calling Out Mary Landrieu

Saturday, a group of pro-life women, including Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King Jr., and Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, gathered to call out Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., for being out of touch with her constituents.

“Not only has Sen. Landrieu voted for taxpayer funding of abortion and against conscience rights, she refuses to support a common sense, compassionate limit on abortion after five months when the child can feel excruciating pain, Sen. Landrieu has failed to stand up for pro-life Louisiana values and must be defeated.” 

As for the mid-term election: A judge on Friday threw out a lawsuit challenging Landrieu’s residency in the state.

Landrieu is shooting for her fourth term, and is set to become chairman of the Senate Energy Committee (a cheap attempt by Harry Reid to bolster her importance and influence for the eyes of voters in the state) but constituents don’t seem to be impressed: The latest Rasmussen poll shows Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-La.has taken a three-point lead in the race, 44 percent to 41 percent.

But that still falls within the margin of error and doesn't cover the built-in voter fraud so wide spread in democrat strong-holds of the southern parishes.  Neither candidate seems poised to get to 50 percent, which is necessary to avoid a December runoff in Louisiana’s open primary system.  

All said, with the Tea-Party candidate polling at 8-9% and refusing to drop out and swing his support to Cassidy, Landrieu is sure to make the runoff, and in all probability, again squeeze out a win.

Obama to Announce Plans to Tickle Murdering Barbarians into Better Behavior.

by Robert Janicki

President Obama is scheduled to speak to the nation on Wednesday to outline what America will not do to stop ISIS, ISIL or whatever the acronym of the day might be.  If the president and his minions can't figure out how to address this mob of murdering thugs, I can't really hold out much hope that he will have anything of consequence to tell Americans.

Paraphrasing Brit Hume of Fox News in small part, Obama will continue to tell the world what he won't do and then try and fit a strategy and a set of tactics, to fit the narrowly tailored parameters he will lay out. Obama will then try to stretch and convolute logic by outlining a strange labyrinth of means that he may or may not employ against an enemy, which he really does not believe is a danger to America's security.

They're Muslims after all is said and done and they're  believers in the religion of peace.  How could that possibly present a danger to America? Of course the facts do not support such a conclusion at any time in history.

That's one of the major obstacles that President Obama can not seem to overcome.  When you see these Muslim barbarians act with inhuman behavior toward other human beings, it's difficult for most people to believe they are anything but the worst of the worst in the animal world.

Expect more obfuscation by President Obama in his speech to the nation on Wednesday.  Still further, expect Obama to push the responsibility of cleaning up the mess he created by completely leaving Iraq, to the the nations in the neighborhood of the ISIS.  Admittedly, it's difficult to find fault with that concept, but expect Obama to use that as an excuse to restrain American participation in dealing with the ISIS barbarians.  Expect not to hear Obama talk about destroying ISIS.  Instead, expect Obama to weasel his words to work around that concept and direct his talk to containment and management of the barbarians of ISIS.

War has only one ultimate purpose and that is to destroy the enemy as quickly as possible with overwhelming force to save lives of the innocent and the forces for liberty and freedom.  If that necessitates the killing of large numbers of the enemy, so be it, that is the responsibility of the enemy aggressors.  Of course, bleeding heart liberals will cry "unnecessary force beyond a measured and proportional response".

That's just how liberal losers always respond.

A Slice Of Life With Tailsniffer Joe…

via MFNS correspondent EARL OF TAINT